Using my old drives files after an SSD install

ignatzatsonic said:

ICit2lol said:

Next trick is to burn / rip to - music to / from the old drive as I don't want to fill my already half full SSD?

Is there a tutorial on this one please?

Not exactly following you.

Do you want to rip songs from CDs? I think Windows can do that, but I use CDex.

Or are you talking about moving songs from one drive to another?

Or?

Hum Ignat both really mate I have quite a library on the old SATA drive (Seagate 1TB) and want to carry on ripping to that drive and also burning from it without involving the SSD at all. The current library is 12GB and that would eat into the 62GB I have left on the SSD if I add it and more.

I wish I could have afforded the 256GB SSD to save me having to use the old drive but well you know how it is.

essenbe said:

Try this John. move user folders. If you move all your used folders to another drive, it will free up a lot of space on the SSD.

Thanks essenbe that is a way to go as well I suppose then keeping music on the SSD isn't going to be such a problem of space eh?

ignatzatsonic said:

I have about 93 GB of mp3 music. It is stored entirely on a spinning drive. My mp3s don't even know my SSD exists.

My ripping and burning applications are installed on my 80 GB SSD. Combined, they take up a miniscule 14 MB.

Can't you do something similar?

Hum yes I suppose I can do what essenbe says and just rip to the SSD then transfer to the spinning drive.

I am just a bit befuddled by how I get them back to use with WMP on the SSD - although I suppose I can just reverse the process once done.

John, by moving user files to a spinner, the music never sees the SSD. You are moving the location of 'My Music' from the C drive to another spinning drive. When you open My Mucic in user folers your My Music is there, but it is actually the my music folder on the spinning drive you are looking at.

Well I am really appreciative to you two very patient fellows are trying to get through this very thick mind - I just can't quite get the gist of putting in a CD to rip - and open WMP to do it and it (WMP) is in the SSD.

Yep. Baiscally all you have to do is make sure WMP knows that the default Music folder is now located on the spinner.

To confirm, or set as the default location, in WMP:

press alt to bring up the menu File>Manage Libraries>Music and either confirm or add the default music folder location.

smarteyeball said:

Yep. Baiscally all you have to do is make sure WMP knows that the default Music folder is now located on the spinner.

To confirm, or set as the default location, in WMP:

press alt to bring up the menu File>Manage Libraries>Music and either confirm or add the default music folder location.

Haha we might just give this a try as i wasn't sure on how I would get stuff in and out as Ignat was asking.

So if I ref the WMP to the default library any time I want to rip / burn then this makes things a tad clearer.